Who Needs Fire?

Wow! It is so crazy to think that it is Christmas already! This year seems to be flying by! This holiday season has been marked by a myriad of events and emotions. As I sit here writing this, it is Christmas Day at about 1pm. It does not look like the Christmases that I am used to. For one, this is my seventh Christmas away from home. I really miss the pageantry of Christmas in the USA and the intimate gatherings with friends and family. However, this is the first Christmas of my married life. God has truly blessed me with the most amazing wife in the world, and I am so thankful for her! We have both decided to put off celebrating Christmas for three weeks, at which point my sister will be visiting us. We will exchange gifts and have Christmas dinner then. I am really looking forward to it! We have done some celebrating already though. This past Saturday, we had our annual Christmas Party at our apartment. We spent a week preparing cookies. We made gingerbread cookies

This morning started just like any other day. I went to the office and gathered my lesson plans and prepared for class at 7:35am. As I was getting ready, one of the office girls came up to me and asked if I could help her investigate something. She showed me that one of the doors to our office had been broken, and it was clear that someone had broken in. We never use this door, and there is a huge cabinet in front of it. It seemed that someone broke the knob and pushed the door open (moving the filing cabinet at the same time). We did have a problem with a student going into the office a few weeks ago. He walked in and stole answers to an exam. My first thought was that he might have done it. I told the worker that there was no way to be sure who it was, short of taking fingerprints. I then went to class, and as I was teaching, I was looking at the students trying to figure out who would be capable of doing it, who would be brazen enough to do it, who would be disre